Sea-Cliff of the Lower Saint Lawrence. 



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between long crescentiform re-entrants in the cliff line. 

 Looking seaward from the road, across the low beach that 

 marks the upper reach of modern storm waves, one sees a 

 wide expanse of mud-flats, through which appear here and 

 there the truncated edges of upturned shale and sandstone 

 layers, — as pretty an illustration of marine planation, inter- 

 rupted by uplift, as one could wish. Bowlders are plentifully 

 scattered over the shelf, from half-tide mark outward (see fig. 



Fig. 7. 



Fig. 7. The old sea-cliff and twenty-foot terrace at Eiviere Blanche, 

 about ten miles west of Matane. 



7), and seem to have reached their present positions by ice- 

 rafting during the spring break-up. Even if observations on 

 the twenty-foot terrace were wanting elsewhere, a day's drive 

 along the foot of the ancient sea-cliffs from Little Metis to 

 Matane would convince an observer of the importance of this, 

 the lowest, of the elevated strands. According to Dawson,* 

 this terrace continues as far as Whale Cape, and reappears, 10 

 miles beyond, at Sainte Anne des Monts. While notbing 

 seems to be known about it on the east and south sides of the 

 *In Logan's Geology of Canada, 1863. 



